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1 week ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
Though the U.S. economy continues to report stable job numbers, plenty of people are having a lousy time looking for work these days. One way people are breaking through mass applications, AI interviews and HR ghosting? Returning to their ex-boss. The share of so-called boomerang hires, or people who rejoin an old company, made up 35% of new hires in March, up from 31% a year earlier and 27% in 2018, according to data from ADP Research.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
Protests are cropping up across the country opposing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and military presence in California. Meanwhile, some Los Angeles business owners are finding their own way to support immigrant, Latino and Hispanic communities targeted by recent federal immigration enforcement raids. SueEllen Mancini, 34, is the owner of Sad Girl Creamery, an LA-based ice cream business that offers Latin-inspired flavors like chocoflan and guava jam cheesecake.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
Millennials and Gen Z workers now make up more than half of the labor force, and they're re-writing the rules of the office. Some of the biggest things on the corporate chopping block? Strict hours, stuffy dress codes and restrictive vacation policies. At least that's the case for the small team at LA-based Socialista Queen, a social media marketing agency.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
The latest economic reports show a surprisingly stable U.S. job market, but there are "cracks in the foundation" that could spell trouble for workers in the coming months, according to Andrew Flowers, chief economist at Appcast, a recruitment marketing provider. The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, beating expectations and down slightly from 147,000 in April, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu |Zachary Green
This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. When Phoebe Merrick first arrived on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, she thought she'd only be there for two months. It was June 2023, just before Merrick's final year of college, and the Virginia native planned to work a summer internship at a winery on the island.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
This story is part of CNBC Make It's Ditching the Degree series, where women who have built six-figure careers without a bachelor's degree reveal the secrets of their success. Got a story to tell? Let us know! Email us at [email protected]. Shelley Oelrichs went to college hoping to become a teacher and basketball coach. But her plans changed when, two months before graduation, she learned she was pregnant and dropped out of school, married her husband and joined the workforce.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
New grads are entering the workplace this summer, and they have mixed feelings about how prepared they are. Two in three recent college grads say they feel "fully ready" to communicate with their colleagues through email or instant messaging at work, while 59% feel good about making conversation in person, according to the latest Handshake report on the class of 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
The question of "what do I wear to work?" has never been this hard to answer. The pandemic made it normal to wear pajamas and sweats while working from home, and casual dress followed workers as they returned to offices over the years. Naturally, corners of the internet have since lit up in debate over the appropriateness of crop tops, shorts and office sirens in the workplace. Social media, the internet and everyone you talk to will have a different idea of what appropriate workwear is.
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1 month ago | 
nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu
New grads are entering the workforce, which means we're probably due for another conversation about how some bosses seem to despise Gen Z workers in the office. In recent years, CEOs have bemoaned that the youngest generation in the workforce, who are as old as 28 this year, don't want to work, are too casual, and are the most challenging generation to work with. Some leaders even go as far as saying they avoid hiring Gen Z workers.
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1 month ago | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Jennifer Liu
Nicky Hancock is an expert in hiring. As the chief growth officer at AMS, she helps 400 clients in 80 countries hire about 300,000 people a year. But she's started to notice one big red flag from job-seekers in the hiring process: "When you can see their whole application is written by AI," Hancock tells CNBC Make It.To be fair, she notes, it's crucial today's young applicants demonstrate they have at least a basic command of AI, if not more advanced knowledge for a technical role.
